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There was no time for Damadian and his team to lounge around and savor their achievement. They were convinced that the crude Indomitable was the first step to a human scanner. But plenty of work stood before them if a true commercial machine was to be developed.

The next challenge was to get the scan time down. There was obviously no value in a scanner that required a patient to remain imprisoned inside it for close to five hours. A key reason it took so long was the horrendous signal-to-noise ratio. In the weeks following the first scan, Goldsmith struggled with the problem. After some manipulation of the electronics, he felt he had achieved discernible improvements, and so Minkoff went back into the coil on July 18.

Minkoff was even ...

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